Archives: Agenda

• EDA: who we are, and what we do

Overview of the European Dairy Association, its role in EU policymaking, and its engagement with science- and evidence-based food policy.

• Ultra-processed foods & cardiovascular health

Recent EU discussions on ultra-processed foods in the context of the recent EU Cardiovascular Health Plan, and implications for dairy products.

• Sugar taxes

EU discussions on sugar taxes and other fiscal tools across the EU, and EDA’s advocacy approach.

• Sustainable nutrition and the role of dairy

EDA’s recent work on positioning dairy within sustainable diets that are nutritionally adequate, affordable for consumers, and aligned with environmental objectives.

• Understanding fouling: current knowledge and working hypotheses
• Linking membrane science with inline process intelligence
• Practical implementation of inline TS% measurement in UF and RO membrane systems
• Data-driven membrane optimization: improving flux stability, filtration efficiency, and cleaning performance

Interactive roundtable sessions offer a unique opportunity to come together with your peers to share best practice and develop solutions to critical challenges facing the industry as a whole. Hosted by industry experts and each focused on a single issue, roundtables are an exciting, interactive way to build your personal network and learn from the experience and expertise of others. 

Each roundtable session lasts for 40 minutes and delegates may attend up to 2 roundtables.

Roundtable 1: NPD: From Consumer Insight to Successful Launch

• Consumer-driven innovation: turning insights into real opportunities
• Smarter segmentation: identifying high-value targets
• Maximizing product launch success rate: what makes the difference

Fosca Vezzulli, Sensory scientist, Vinhood

Veronica Martinelli, Key Account Manager, Vinhood

Roundtable 2: Hybrid dairy

• A changing industry – precision fermentation and hybrid dairy
• Fast scope 3 reduction potential
• Commercialising hybrid dairy – challenges and opportunities

Jakob Skovgaard, Co-Founder & CEO, PlanetDairy

• Dairy companies are making progress to reduce emissions and become net-zero by 2050
• Nature targets add another dimension to the boardroom discussion on sustainability
• How does product innovation fit in the industry’s sustainability agenda
• The impact of new EU regulation on sustainability related claims

• How are consumers connected to brands and fast-moving consumer goods?
• How do consumers choose products – consumer shopping behaviours and brand recognition
• Growing scepticism around vague or overstated claims
• Preference for simple, science-backed messaging
• Trust built through transparency and recognizable ingredients

• Dairy processing
• Impact of heat load on dairy proteins
• Fermentation and kefir
• Safety considerations
• Design of the clinical study on kefir

In this presentation infant nutrition will be placed in the context of One Health. It will be shown how infant nutrition plays a critical role in shaping the infant’s microbiome, having consequences for long-term health. Both current status as well as future perspectives will be presented.

• One Health
• Microbiome
• Immune
• Exposome
• Infant nutrition

60 second solution provider introduction.